Strange Holiday (1945 film)

Strange Holiday is a 1945 American movie directed by Arch Oboler. Claude Rains features as a man who returns from a fishing vacation to find America controlled by fascists.

Strange Holiday
Theatrical poster for the film
Directed byArch Oboler
Written byArch Oboler (radio play and screenplay)
StarringClaude Rains
CinematographyRobert L. Surtees
Edited byFred R. Feitshans Jr.
Production
company
Elite Pictures
General Motors
Distributed byProducers Releasing Corporation
Release date
  • October 19, 1945 (1945-10-19)
Running time
61 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Introductory material included with the video release of this movie states that it was underwritten by General Motors corporation and was shown initially in private screenings for the corporation's employees.

Martin Kosleck, a German actor who had played a Nazi or Nazi sympathizer in numerous American movies during the Second World War, is featured prominently as a local authority of the new oppressive regime. The new government makes prominent and continual use of an emblem consisting of two crossed swords in much the way the Swastika had been employed by Nazi Germany.

An important theme of the movie is the contrast between brave individuals such as Rains who oppose the new tyranny and the many who quickly alter their thinking and behavior to conform with the new authority. In this the movie resembles Jack Webb's later anticommunist movie Red Nightmare.

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